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The Judges

From Elie Wiesel, a gripping novel of guilt, innocence, and the perilousness of judging both.

A plane en route from New York to Tel Aviv is forced down by bad weather. A nearby house provides refuge for five of its passengers: Claudia, who has left her husband and found new love; Razziel, a religious teacher who was once a political prisoner; Yoav, a terminally ill Israeli commando; George, an archivist who is hiding a Holocaust secret that could bring down a certain politician; and Bruce, a would-be priest turned philanderer.

Their host — an enigmatic and disquieting man who calls himself simply the Judge — begins to interrogate them, forcing them to face the truth and meaning of their lives. Soon he announces that one of them — the least worthy — will die.

The Judges is a powerful novel that reflects the philosophical, religious, and moral questions that are at the heart of Elie Wiesel’s work.

From the Hardcover edition.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 224
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780805211214
  • Genres
  • fiction, holocaust, novels, contemporary, judaism, jewish, philosophy
  • Release date
  • 2004